Religion and the US South
...South was the movement of increasing numbers of settlers into backcountry areas of Virginia and the Carolinas after 1750. Attracted by inexpensive land, Scotch-Irish Presbyterians, Separate Baptists from the northern...
Unquiet Emmett Till
...Mace generalizes, for example, that "readers in Seattle and Denver were somewhat sympathetic to the Till family, while readers in San Francisco were largely disinterested in the Till case" (124)....
Elegy for the Native Guards
Poem Elegy for the Native Guards Now that the salt of their blood Stiffens the saltier oblivion of the sea . . . —Allen Tate We leave Gulfport at noon;...
Segregation's New Geography: The Atlanta Metro Region, Race, and the Declining Prospects for Upward Mobility
...51,387 18% 39% 34,409 7% Newton County 13,690 40,371 22% 40% 26,681 6% Rockdale County 12,670 38,996 18% 46% 26,326 6% Nearing Majority Black Subtotal 156,262 298,807 19% 30% 142,545...
The Joneses: Home Made in Mississippi
...with the cost of flights and the initial recovery period in a hotel, it was cheaper to do so there than in the United States. Hearing her story, Ash insisted...
CDC in the Pandemic's Wake
...became glaringly obvious during the pandemic and contributed to numerous missteps in the US response to COVID-19."2Daniel Pollock, "COVID-19 Lessons in Ignorance," Southern Spaces, April 28, 2022, the first in...
"Out Yonder on the Road": Working Class Self-Representation and the 1939 Roadside Demonstration in Southeast Missouri
...York Times, January 14, 1939. As the state police demolished the camps on January 14 and 15, the visual battle neared an end. At first it seemed that the removal...
Hoboken Style: Meaning and Change in Okefenokee Sacred Harp Singing
...“worldly entertainment accompanied by Religious practice.”60Minutes of the One Hundred and Fifty-Fourth Annual Session of the Alabaha River Primitive Baptist Association held with Oak Grove Church, Brantley County, Georgia, 12-14...
Dixie Destinations: Rereading Jonathan Daniels's A Southerner Discovers the South
...July 12.10The July 12 publication date is mentioned in "Opportune Opus for Dixie," Richmond Times-Dispatch, 19 July 1938, clipping in A Southerner Discovers the South scrapbook, Folder OP-3466/24, Daniels Papers, SHC. On the...
LiFT Art Salon: Gallery 72
...more diverse audiences."4Shady, phone interview with author, November 12, 2015, Atlanta, Georgia. Transcription by author. LiFT attendee Mikey P interacts with a series of beat machines from different eras of hip...